Red Schoendienst (Albert Fred Schoendienst) Quotes
I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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I choose to express myself.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.
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I have a love for boxing.
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When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.
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Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn't, it's still been a blast.
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Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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I don't really have any different cravings from the ones that I had before. I've always liked food that is not good for you, and I still do. But I think I've been really good with eating healthy. I think probably the biggest thing is french fries, but that's nothing new. Right now, I'm trying to force myself to drink water with lemon. Bo-ring.
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I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.
